La Revolución Verde Llega a las Azoteas de la Capital Mexicana: El Mundo
” (…) se hacen llamar ‘Sembradores Urbanos’ y han convertido en menos de tres años un almacén en ruinas cedido por la administración en un huerto orgánico y centro educativo. El Centro de Agricultura Urbana, conocido en la cuidad como el ‘Huerto Romita’ es un pequeño vergel que emerge en la colonia Roma y se pierde entre las estrechas callejuelas de este céntrico barrio de la ciudad.”
Lee todo el artículo en el edición de El Mundo de ayer.
MILWAUKEE, USA: Earlier this week, CNN ran a short “Solutions” feature about Will Allen and Growing Power. Watch the video here.
FINDING AN IMAGINATION GAME for bringing Sunday morning attention to messy houses and apartments, based on randomness.
The game is about: imagination or art and cleaning.
The only rules: Don’ get stuck on changing something the right or wrong way– If you or your group find yourself stuck, change the object of your inquiry. Play until the homescape has been rearranged, or as time allows-
“Bringing People Back into the Economy”, an excerpt from Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, written by Dr. Vandana Shiva, published in 2008, and found online at the Center for Ecoliteracy.
IN the age of global food crisis, those financing export agriculture play the rest of the planet a most dangerous game: read the NYTimes Magazine feature here:
(…) spurring financial firms like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in overseas agricultural projects, so the mood was heady for business, though depressing for humanity.
THE MINIMALIST: Mark Bittman spins off more than 100 descriptions of mostly simple and healthy recipes set to satisfy a restless autumn hunger .
CHICAGO, USA: A Slow Food write up in promotion of organizing like the Growing Food and Justice Initiative, and farming like Growing Power.
“I don’t understand anything”
I could be proud and naïve to live
The openness in this kernel of sage
wisdom–
.
IN a wonderful dream
Some people will give you a low vote, 1 of 5,
meaning there is a chance to do it bigger and
improve again–
.
THE understanding goes away and the odds that everything
you can’t fathom just exceptionally swell–
.
ALL goes, all goes–
.
WINTER is robbing golden hot rays in the planets’ cold turn against the Sun,
the dormant face of the Earth hums:
“We are connected to all, we are connected to all,
we are loving the light–”
.
THE spring underneath is neither here nor waits–
.
WINTER settles in.
.
Get on the Green Bus: EcoJustice in East Oakland, California, USA, November 19, 2009
Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II: Prior Lakes, Minnesota, USA, November 18-21, 2009
